The HIGH GROVE is the epitome of your friendly local pub and has been serving the Gatley estate for over 50 years. Our local pub is at the heart of the community. The pub is also the social hub of the area, providing local entertainment including regular quiz nights, evening events to raise money for local charities and hosting live televised sporting events. The pub is expected to close at the end of 2015 and we desperately need your help to save it. An application to register the High Grove as an Asset of Community Value has now been submitted to Stockport Council and will be heard at the Area Committee meeting on Sept 29th. The potential closure of the High Grove public house demonstrates how vulnerable communities are to speculative and aggressive development tactics, we need you to help us urge the Council to accept the application to list the pub immediately. This will ensure planning permission has to be sought and approved by the council for the pub to be demolished or converted to any other use. The listing also gives the community an opportunity to potentially come together to form a co-operative group to buy and run our local pub. Please sign the campaign and ask your neighbours to do also. Anyone you know who frequents the High Grove or lives in the Gatley and Cheadle area should also be asked to sign it. Protect our pubs from developers.

Quarrying here will ruin village life. Heavy quarry lorries will be passing close by Alrewas but through Fradley, Kings Bromley, Yoxall and hamlets in between, poor air quality is inevitable and quarrying will ruin the beautiful countryside and kill wildlife. Best and fertile soil for the successful farming and agricultural industry in the area will be lost for good. There is a national shortage of infill and replacing the soil will be impossible. Do we want yet more lakes and water facilities as a result? Do we want to lose our farming and agricultural industry and put farmers out of work? There are safety issues concerning the large, high pressure gas pipelines that run beneath the earmarked area. Mistakes could be fatal and a quarry here will pose a serious security risk. The explosion of just one pipe could cause fatalities in nearby villages. Imagine what 8 could do! How do we manage the flows of people in and out of the area to keep the gas pipe safe against a terrorist attack? This is a popular area for tourists. This is because of the wonderful country views and open countryside, listed, historic buildings such as Wychnor Golf and Country Club, the Millennium Way and other public country walks, the canal and Fradley Junction, and historic villages and buildings used and visited by tourists from around the globe. 3 quarries will surely degrade the area, all of the above will be impacted, removing the attraction for tourists and cutting off valuable tourist income to the local communities. This area has suffered greatly from quarrying. There are already a number of quarries in Barton Under Needwood, Alrewas, Elford that are operational and being extended. Together with HS2, 3 more quarries will be devastating for the area. How much more can one small area take? We know the gravel has to be supplied from somewhere but there are other, more suitable areas that SCC should consider that will not impact villages, are not in areas already suffering from many years of quarrying and do not pose a safety and security risk. We would also argue that the UK does not recycle aggregate materials as much as it could and in comparison to other European countries our efforts are poor. If recycling was done properly and well, so many quarries would not be needed. Please help us stop the constant degradation of our environment and countryside. Make our government and local Council think about the impact on people, safety and local business. Please sign and stop quarrying in this area!

London and Quadrent over the years have gone from being a caring organisation providing social accommodation to those in need. It seems however that in recent years they have become very much about making profit, investing in redevelopment homes that are part buy/rent. They have been very underhand and lied on several occasions to long term residents of the small estate in Sydenham SE26 and seem to be railroading this development through Lewisham Council.

In Scotland the owners of at least 3.45 million acres (18% of all rural land) cannot be identified because the owners shelter behind nominees or trustees registered in offshore & foreign jurisdictions. Transparency International and David Cameron (UK Prime Minister) agree that this creates an environment in which tax is avoided and in which corruption (eg money laundering) can thrive. The clause stated above was recommended for inclusion in the Land Reform Bill by the LRRG to address this issue and this was supported by the Scottish Govt, but it was not included in the Bill published in June 2015. It seems that the wishes of Scottish landowners have been given more weight than the the interests of the country and its people.

KCC’s Proposed modifications to the Kent Minerals and Waste Local Plan (MWLP) 2013-30. state that subject to certain conditions, planning permission will be granted for proposals associated with the exploration, appraisal and development of oil, gas and unconventional hydrocarbons. This blanket approach ignores the inherent risks of fracking which have been well documented around the world. The dangers are real and critical. Consultation on the subject has been buried in obscurely worded documents that will have successfully slipped below the radar of most of the residents of Kent. This is not an acceptable democratic approach. KCC must ensure they represent the views of the residents and land-owners of Kent before permitting any fracking activity to take place on Kentish soil.

Open spaces are the lungs of our wonderful borough and the proposed change of use of this Metropolitan Open Land sets a precedent that could gradually consume this protected land. •Potential trade-offs have been discussed with the private landowner to develop housing on the site •This land is protected as stipulated by the Lord Mayor in the London Plan 2015 who said that Metropolitan Open Land must be preserved unless very extreme circumstances exist. Once gone, such open space is lostforever. IMPLICATIONS FOR US ALL ARE: - Threat to Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) and Ealing Cricket Club Conservation Area. The build would remove protected MOL and set a precedent for further unwelcome development. - A significant increase in traffic in our neighbourhood with the possibility of local gridlock. Many local residents recognise that something needs to be done to prevent inappropriate development of the former Barclays Bank Sports Ground and want restoration of the grounds for much needed fitness and leisure activities that is very much lacking in the Ealing North and Central community .

The future of the very first inter-city passenger railway, which opened on 15th September 1830, is under threat. The Manchester Liverpool Road railway station is where it all began: from the railways of old, which made our modern civilisation possible, to the railways of the today, which provide the sustainable transport needed to combat climate change. This incredible part of our international history, with its grade 1 and 2* listed buildings, is in essence, a working station, though it is cared for by the Museum of Science and Industry. It is still connected to the National Rail Network: you can visit the station today, on a real steam train, just as people have done for the past 185 years. Network rail want to change that: as part of an otherwise welcome scheme to connect Manchester Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly, they plan to sever the line. The very first railway will no longer BE a railway: just a museum piece, nothing more. Part of a depressing wider trend of poor strategy and planning, slow obliteration of Northern history and culture and legal wrangling over common sense issues at the tax payers expense, this case involves a 3 million pound "deal" with the Museum of Science and Industry who have abandoned their responsibility to protect this site and a crass lack of respect by National Rail for the history of their own raison d'etre.

The Conservatives running B&NES have ignored the strong objections of local people and put forward three terrible sites for a Park & Ride, all of them on the beautiful meadows. The options would all wreck the views enjoyed by residents and visitors and ruin our recreational use of the valley. The size of the sites are all too small and on their own won’t do much about the horrendous jams on London Road.

How are we going to get furniture and deliveries to our door if we open our gate and a house is there. How are the fire brigade or worse the ambulance men going to get access to residents or carry a body out in a box. How do we get our rubbish bins out. Where do we pensioners park our cars the roads are full already we have a school nearby when a child is killed will you listen then.

Scotland has the most concentrated land ownership in the developed world. Just 432 people own half of the private land. Land prices are far too high - this is why rents are extortionate, and why young people are leaving when they can't even get a scrap of land for housing. For Scotland to flourish and every community to have a say over their resources and their future, we need a strong land reform bill that really tackles all these issues. We're up against a wealthy landowning lobby who want to water down the Scottish government's proposals - so we must make our voice heard! Tell your MSPs to back the five demands of the #OurLand campaign and make sure we get a bill that can change Scotland for the better. The Our Land Campaign was set up by Common Weal, Women for Independence, the Scottish Land Action Movement and campaigners Andy Wightman and Lesley Riddoch to highlight the way unavailable and unaffordable land blights development in the countryside and cities.

The EALING JAZZ CLUB is the birthplace of RHYTHM and BLUES in the UK. It is where the Rolling Stones, The Who, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Paul Jones, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker of Cream, Eric Burden of The Animals, Long John Baldry and many more, all congregated in order to play Rhythm and Blues for the first time together. THE CLUB IS THREATENED by development. Plans have been submitted to Ealing Town Council. These plans require the demolition of the club in order to make way for a steel and glass retail and residential complex. The EALING JAZZ CLUB (now the "Red Room") is still much as it was in 1962 when Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner introduced The Rolling Stones to each other and where Rhythm and Blues started in this country. Keith Richards has written in his autobiography 'Life' that: "Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner got a club going, the weekly spot at the Ealing Jazz Club..... without them there might have been nothing ". Kansas University, USA, states that: "The EALING JAZZ CLUB deserves the same reverence in posterity as Sun Records in Memphis, the Grand Old Opry in Nashville (where Elvis Presley got his start) and the Cavern Club in Liverpool, perhaps even more so, as it's influence on the entire history of rock is so significant" The club is iconic and irreplaceable. Its credentials contribute immensely to London's reputation as the music capital of the world. It is of enormous importance to Ealing, London, the Nation and the World, and is part of the rich musical heritage of our country. Boris Johnson recently invited guests to a reception at City Hall, to promote music in London and to highlight the threat to small music venues by developers. He acknowledged that many have already been eradicated. If enough of us protest against the destruction of the EALING JAZZ CLUB, we could save this iconic venue for future generations of music fans and others who gain inspiration from seeing and feeling the actual place where music history was made. If we celebrate it's status, it could become the focus for heralding and highlighting the music, film, theatre and art of Ealing, and it could become a destination attraction, encouraging tourism and more live music events. WE MUST NOT LOSE THIS HISTORIC PLACE. Please make your voices heard by signing this petition and please send this message on to your contacts. If we demand it, we COULD save the EALING JAZZ CLUB from being lost to the world for ever. Thank you.

Whilst we accept that more houses are needed in the Beverley area, we are deeply concerned about the scale of housing developments proposed for Beverley, as detailed by ERYC in various documents, including the emerging East Riding Local Plan: 3,000 houses are proposed in a town with a current population of 30,000. Most recently, the Draft Masterplan for the South West of Beverley shows a level of housing density well in excess of the existing housing in the vicinity: 1,900 houses, which is equivalent to approximately 35 houses per hectare, as opposed to the current 20 houses per hectare in the neighbouring Lincoln Way development, in other words, not in keeping with the character for the area. In 2011 the Beverley Renaissance Partnership called for a large area of open space for public recreational use, a new common, tentatively called Southwood, to complement the existing pastures elsewhere in Beverley, something the new Draft Masterplan has now omitted. Currently only 10 hectares of the 80 hectare development are proposed as green space and this is in small patches scattered around the development. This area needs to be larger and joined up into a coherent chunk of land that will provide a useful recreational space, a green lung for the town, and ensure that Beverley does not become just another suburb of Hull. We call on ERYC to amend the above Draft Masterplan to reflect a level of development more in keeping with the area. We also ask that Beverley retain the existing quality of life for present and future residents by preserving and expanding its green spaces for recreational use and, in the process, protect and preserve our local wildlife.